Đề thi thử THPT quốc gia môn Tiếng Anh số 62

SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN (ĐỀ LUYỆN 062) ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút PHẦN TRÁC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm) Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. Question 1: A. familiar B. impatient C. uncertain D. arrogant Question 2: A. forgettable B. philosophy C. humanism D. objectively Question 3: A. disappear B. arrangement C. opponent D. contractual Question 4: A. respectable B. affectionate C. occasional D. kindergarten Question 5: A. environmental B. conservatively C. approximately D. considerable Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Question 6: Research has shown that there is no difference at all between the brain of the average woman and _______of the average man. A. what B. which C. one D. that Question 7: "MD" is the abbreviation of _______. A. Medical Development B. Doctor of Medicine C. Medium Density D. Management Director Question 8: -'- "That's a very nice skirt you're wearing." -“ ___________” A. How a compliment! B. That's all right. C. It's nice of you to say so. D. I like you said so. Question 9: _______are the formal rules of correct or polite behavior among people using the Internet. A. Traffic rules B. Family rules C. Codes of etiquettes D. Codes of etiquettes Question 10: -" ____________" - "Yes, of course." A. You won't help me this time B. You'd better give me one hand. C. I don't think I'll need your help. D. Could you give me a hand? Question 11: UNICEF _______supports and funds for the most disadvantaged children all over the world. A. presents (show) B. assists (give help) C. provides D. offers (favor) Question 12: Is there anyone who _______ the plan put forward by the committee? A. differs (from) B. disagrees (with) C. objects (to) D. opposes Question 13: He would win the race if he _______his brother's example and trained harder. A. repeated B. set C. answered D. followed (an example) Question 14 "Excuse me. Where is the ____________office of OXFAM located?" A. leading B. head (headquarter)C. central D. summit Question 15: She neglected her study during the term, _______she couldn't pass the exam. A. although B. because C. so that D. so (result) Question 16: The doctors know that it is very difficult to save the patient's life, _______they will try their best. A. but (contrast) B. although C. despite D. however Question 17: I am sending you my curriculum vitae _____you will have a chance to study it before our interview. A. so that B. because C. for D. since = the same Question 18: Unfortunately, your letter arrived after the final date for application. ____, we cannot consider you for the post. A. As result B. That is because C. Consequently (negative) D. To this Question 19: Everybody in the house woke up when the burglar alarm ______ A. went out B. went off C. came about D. rang off Question 20: - " You're already leaving? The ball is only starting." - " But it's very late, so ____." A. take care B. have a good day C. goodbye for now D. it's great fun, thanks^ Question 21: Have a piece of chocolate,_ ______? A. do you (will u) B. would you C. don't you D. haven't you Question 22: By the time you come here tomorrow, the work _______. PREPARED BY M.A ĐỖ BÌNH – GV THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – binhbac72@gmail.com 4 FEB 2015 A. will have been finishing B. will be finishing C. will have been finished D. will be finished Question 23: If you put your money in a bank now, you may get 12% _______annually. A. interest B. profit C. money D. income Question 24: -" _______" - "Yes. I'd like to buy a computer." (shopper-shop assistant) A. Do you look for something? B. Good morning. Can I help you? C. Excuse me. Do you want to buy it? D. Can you help me buy something? Question 25: In making remarks, he _______to understatement. (nói bớt) A. declined B. intended C. aligned (sắp thẳng hàng) D. inclined Question 26: After her illness, Lam had to work hard to _______ his classmates. A. catch sight of B. keep pace with C. get in touch with D. make allowance for Question 27: Some kinds of birds are on the _______of extinction. A. brink (of war, of grave= ctranh, miệng lỗ= verge) B. tip C. side D. edge Question 28: _______of popular expressions in our language have interesting backgrounds. A. A large number B. The large number C. A great deal D. A sum Question 29:_______for farming purposes, soil must contain the minerals plants require. A. To be good (purpose) B. Being good C. Be good D. That's good Question 30: Please _______your cigarette. I am going to get choked (nghẹt, tức thở). A. cut down B. blowout C. put aside D. put out Question 31: The new laws have encouraged both domestic and foreign private _______. A. savings B. paying C. investment D. economics Question 32: Since the reform, the country has undergone _______changes. A. large B. sizeable C. substantial D. favourable Question 33: _ “ Do you like your new job?" - "Yes, but my employer insisted that I ____on time."(đòi hỏi) A. was B. am C. have been D. be Question 34: Many companies know that attractive ____________can persuade customers to buy their goods. A. packs B. packets C. package D. packaging(job) Question 35: I think the company should inform its customers _____the improvements in their services. A. on B. about C. to D. with Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks. The universal symbol of the Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the word 'at', is (36)_ actually _ a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, a Rome academic has revealed. Giorgio Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, (37)_ claims _ to have stumbled on the earliest known example of the symbol's use, as a(n) (38) _ indication _ of a measure of weight or volume. He says the sign represents an amphora (cái vò 2 quai), a measure of (39)_ capacity _ based on the terracotta (địa hình) jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterranean world. The professor (40)_ unearthed (không tiếp đất)_ toe ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20 th century, to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia. The first (41) known _ instance of its use, he says, occurred in a letter written by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536. He says the sign made its (42)_ way _ along trade routes to northern Europe, where it came to represent 'at the price of, its contemporary accountancy (43)_ meaning _.(việc đo đếm, tính toán) Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents (44)_ bearing _ the symbol lying forgotten in their archives(văn thư lưu trữ). The oldest example could be of great value. It could be used (45)_ for _ publicity purposes and to enhance the prestige (có uy tín) of the institution that owned it,* he says. The race is on between the mercantile (vụ lợi) world and the banking world to see who has the oldest documentation of @. Question 36: A. actually B. truly C. essentially D. accurately Question 37: A. says B. states C. claims đòi hỏi D. tells Question 38: A. proof B. sign C. evidence D. indication Question 39: A. ability B. capacity C. capability D. facility Question 40: A. exposed B. unearthed C. dug D. devised Question 41: A. known B. knowing C. knowable D. knowledgeable Question 42: A. line B. means C. way D. method Question 43: A sense B. importance C. meaning D. understanding Question 44: A. taking B. carrying C. delivering D. bearing PREPARED BY M.A ĐỖ BÌNH – GV THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – binhbac72@gmail.com 4 FEB 2015 Question 45: A. on B. for C. with D. by Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. A rather surprising geographical feature of Antarctica is that a huge freshwater lake, one of the world's largest and deepest, lies hidden there under four kilometers of ice. Now known as Lake Vostok, this huge body of water is located under the ice block that comprises Antarctica. The lake is able to exist in its unfrozen state beneath this block of ice because its waters are warmed by geothermal heat from the earth's core. The thick glacier above Lake Vostok actually insulates(isolate) it from the frigid temperatures on the surface. (lạnh giá) The lake was first discovered in the 1970s while a research team was conducting an aerial survey of the area. Radio waves from the survey equipment penetrated(thâm nhập) the ice and revealed a body of water of indeterminate (intermiinate = vô hạn)size. It was not until much more recently that data collected by satellite made scientists aware of the tremendous size of the lake; the satellite-borne radar detected an extremely flat region where the ice remains level because it is floating on the water of the lake. The discovery of such a huge freshwater lake trapped under Antarctica is of interest to the scientific community because of the potential that the lake contains ancient microbes(vi trùng)that have survived for thousands upon thousands of years, unaffected by factors such as nuclear fallout and elevated ultraviolet light that have affected organisms in more exposed areas. The downside(mặt xấu) of the discovery, however, lies in the difficulty of conducting research on the lake in such a harsh climate and in the problems associated with obtaining uncontaminated samples from the lake without actually exposing the lake to contamination. Scientists are looking for possible ways to accomplish this. Question 46: The word "hidden" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to A. undrinkable B. untouched C. unexploitable D. undiscovered Question 47: What is true of Lake Vostok? A. It is completely frozen. B. It is a saltwater lake. C. It is beneath a thick slab of ice.(tảng băng) D. It is heated by the sun. Question 48: Which of the following is closest in meaning to "frigid" in paragraph 1? A. Extremely cold B. Easily broken C. Quite harsh D. Lukewarm Question 49: A ll of the following are true about the 1970 survey of Antarctica EXCEPT that it ______ A. was conducted by air B. made use of radio waves C. could not determine the lake's exact size D. was controlled by a satellite Question 49: The word "microbes" in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by which of the following? A. Pieces of dust B. Tiny bubbles C. Tiny organisms D. Rays of light Question 50: The word "downside" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______ A. bottom level B. negative aspect C. underside D. buried section Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from. Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric (satirical= châm biếm, trào phúng) literature is its freshness and its originality of perspective (phối cảnh, thực tiễn). Satire itself, however, rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies (triết lí). What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars (kêu lên, gây chấn động) us out of complacence (sự tự mãn) into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. Don Quixote (Đông-Ki-Sốt) makes chivalry (tt thượng võ, hiệp sỹ) seem absurd (vô lí); Brave New World ridicules the pretensions (kì vọng) of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation (đói) by advocating cannibalism (tục ăn thịt người). None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically (thẩm mỹ) satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome (lành tính, vô hại) or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness (phát đạt, nhanh) they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence (bất kính), satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles (bò, trườn) familiar objects into incongruous (không hợp) juxtaposition (đặt liền kề), and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude (tầm thường, vô vị). PREPARED BY M.A ĐỖ BÌNH – GV THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – binhbac72@gmail.com 4 FEB 2015 Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent(bất kính) reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous(tầm thường, vô vị) thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is sanctimonious, (phô trương, mộ đạo) sentimental (đa cảm), and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Question 51: What does the passage mainly discuss? A. Difficulties of writing satiric literature. B. Popular topics of satire. C. New philosophies emerging from satiric literature. D. Reasons for the popularity of satire. Question 52: The last sentence of the first paragraph refers to _______as a result of reading satire. A. a long fact-finding quest B. a pleasant surprise C. a process of disillusionment (ảo tưởng, vỡ mộng)D. a process of total confusion Question 53: Don Quixote, Brave New World, and A Modest Proposal are cited by the author as_. A. classic satiric works B. a typical approach to satire C. best satirists of all times D. good critiques by satirists Question 54: What satires fascinates readers is how _______. A. ideas are expressed B. ideas are organized C. realistic they are D. plots are created Question 55: Which of the following can be found in satiric literature? A. Newly emerging philosophies. B. Odd combinations of objects and ideas. C. Abstract discussion of morals and ethics. D. Wholesome characters who are unselfish. (lành tính, vô hại) Question 56: According to the passage, there is a need for satire because people need to be_______. A. informed about new scientific developments B. exposed to original philosophies when they are formulated C. reminded that popular ideas may often be inaccurate D. told how they can be of service to their communities Question 57: The word "refreshing" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to_________. A. popular B. revitalizing C. common D. awakening Question 58: The word "sanctimonious" may be new to you. It most probably means "____" in this context. A. exaggerated B. good C. educational D. moderate Question 59: Readers of satiric literature will be most likely to________. A. teach themselves to write fiction B. accept conventional points of view C. become better informed about current affairs D. re-examine their opinions and values Question 60: The various purposes of satire include all of the following EXCEPT_. A. introducing readers to unfamiliar situations B. brushing away illusions C. reminding readers of the truth D. exposing false values Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined, part that needs correction. Question 61: Please remain in your assign ed seats until the instructor dismisses the class. A B C D Question 62: Employees who haven't seen the new regulations often ask for unnecessary questions; instead they should ask for a copy of the regulations and read them. (bỏ for) A B C D Question 63: Even you are unsure of the standard procedures in any situation, please don't hesitate to consult with your supervising manager. A B C D (not sure) Question 64: We have always believed that honesty is best policy in personal as well as professional matters. A B (the) C D PHẦN TỰ LUẬN: (2 điểm) I. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that the original meaning is exactly the same as the provided one. 1. “ How many survivors are there?”, asked the journalist. => The journalist wanted to know 2. It was such rotten meat that it had to be thrown away. => The meat was PREPARED BY M.A ĐỖ BÌNH – GV THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – binhbac72@gmail.com 4 FEB 2015 3. It is essential that Professor Van Helsing is met at the airport => Professor Van Helsing 4. You can’t visit the USA unless you have a visa. => If you 5. “ Can I borrow your typewriter, Janet”? asked Peter. => Peter asked if II. Topic: What would you like to change about your hometown? If I could change one important thing about my hometown, it would be air pollution problem, and I will give the following reasons to explain why I want to solve the problem. The first and most important reason is that I hope that my hometown can become a beautiful city. As an old industrial city, my hometown has made a great deal of contribution for the country’s economic development. At a result, the natural environment of the city has been badly damaged. The forest has disappeared; the mountains have become bald, and the most awful thing is that the air quality becomes worse and worse. People seldom see the blue sky during most time of year. Another reason why I want to change my hometown’s air pollution situation is that the city’s development needs clean and tidy environment to attract investors. Nowadays people have come to know that the city’s environment, which is so called “software facility of the city”, plays an important role in the city’s future. For example, due to the fact that the environment of the city is very poor, many local students who pursue their study out of the city would rather find themselves a job in other cities than coming back to their hometown after they graduated. In addition, nowadays people have paid more and more attention to their health. If air pollution problem cannot be solved as quickly as possible, people’s requirement for a healthy body will never be realized. In my mind, changing air pollution will apparently be my first choice if I can change one important thing about my hometown. Fortunately people in my hometown are gradually aware of the serious problem. PREPARED BY M.A ĐỖ BÌNH – GV THPT LIỄN SƠN, LẬP THẠCH, VĨNH PHÚC – binhbac72@gmail.com 4 FEB 2015 . SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC TRƯỜNG THPT LIỄN SƠN (ĐỀ LUYỆN 062) ĐỀ THI THỬ THPT QUỐC GIA NĂM 2015 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 90 phút PHẦN TRÁC NGHIỆM: (8 điểm) Mark the letter. ____________" - "Yes, of course." A. You won't help me this time B. You'd better give me one hand. C. I don't think I'll need your help. D. Could you give me a hand? Question. (shopper-shop assistant) A. Do you look for something? B. Good morning. Can I help you? C. Excuse me. Do you want to buy it? D. Can you help me buy something? Question 25: In making remarks, he _______to